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o'clock, and at half past three were he- 
yond the region of the ice, We got to the 
Priory of Chamouny at half past seven, 
alter forty-five hours’ absence. 
A new edition is in the press of the 
Saxon Chronicles, with an English 
translation, and notes, critical and ex- 
planatory, by the Rey. J. INcRAm, fel- 
low of Trinity College, Oxford, and 
late Saxon Professor in the University 
of Oxford. A new and copious Chro- 
nolovical, Topographical, and Glossa- 
rial Index, with a short Grammar of 
the Saxon Language, and an accurate 
and enlarged Map of England during 
the Heptarchy, will be added. 
A Treatise on Navigation and Nau- 
tical Astronomy is preparing for pub- 
lication, adapted to practice, and to 
the purposes of elementary instruc- 
tion, by E. RrppLe, master of the 
Upper School, Royal Naval Asylum, 
Greenwich. 
’ Travels through the Holy Land and 
Egypt, illustrated with engravings, by 
‘W. R. Witson, of Kelvinbank, North 
Britain, are in preparation. 
A Quarto Duoglott Bible will short- 
ly be published, comprising the Holy 
Scriptures in the English and Welsh 
language, every column of each ver- 
sion corresponding with the other, by 
J. Harris, editor of the Seren Gomer, 
Swansea. He gives this specimen— 
JER. L. 
31. Behold, 1 
against thee, O ¢iou most 
proud, saith the Lord God 
of Hosts; for thy day is 
come, the time ¢éhat I 
will visit thee. 
am 
JER. L. 
31. Wele fi yn dy erbyn 
di, O faleh, medd Ar- 
glwydd Dduw y Iluoedd; 
o herwydd dy ddydd a 
ddaeth, yr amser yr ym- 
welwyf 4 thi. 
Views of Ireland, moral, political, 
and religious, comprising the following 
subjects :—Education, religion, nati- 
onal character, church establishment, 
tithe, church of Rome in Ireland, 
Presbyterian, the Union, Rebellion, 
&e. will soon be published by Joun 
O’DRISCOL, esq. 
The first number of a new monthly 
work, called the Knight Errant, will 
be published on the Ist of January. 
Transactions of the Literary Trans- 
actions of Bombay, Vol. Ii1. are print- 
ing in London. 
Portraits of the British Poets, Parts 
XVI. and XVII. containing Sidney, 
Spencer, Quarles, Parnell, Fenton, 
Booth, Herbert, Godolphin, Shadwell, 
Cibber, Dr. Joseph Warton, and Bi- 
shop, will be speedily published. 
The nettle, urtica urens, in Shrop- 
shire may be dressed and manufactured, 
like flax, into cloth, In France it. is 
made into paper; and, when dried, is 
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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Dec. 1, 
eaten by sheep and oxen. In Russia 
a green dye is obtained from its leaves, 
and a yellow one from its roots. In 
the spring a salutary pottage is made 
from the tops. In Scotland they make 
a runnet from a décoction of it with 
salt, for coagulating their milk. 
The second edition, in folio, of the 
Holy Catholic Bible, enriched with 
many beautiful engravings, is nearly 
ready for publication, under the sanc- 
tion of the Right Rev. Dr. Gibson. 
Indian Essays, on the Manners, 
Customs, and Habits, of Bengal, are 
printing in one volume, octavo. 
J. WESLEY CLARKE, esq. has a se- 
cond edition in the press of his Geo- 
graphical Dictionary, which he has 
been enabled considerably to improve. 
Memoirs of the Life of Charles 
Alfred Stothard, F.s.A. author of “the 
Monumental Effigies of Great Bri- 
fain,” including several of his original 
letters, papers, journals, essays, &c. 
with some account of a journey in the 
Netherlands, will speedily be publish- 
ed by Mrs. C. StoTHaRD, author of 
“ Letters written during a Tour 
through Normandy, Brittany, and 
other parts of France, in 1818.” 
Reformation, a novel, will soon 
appear. 
The fourth volume of the Preacher, 
or Sketches. of Original Sermons, 
chiefly selected from the manuscripts 
of two eminent divines of the last cen- 
tury, for the use of lay preachers and 
young ministers ; to which is prefixed 
a Familiar Essay on the Composition 
of a Sermon, and a Letter toa Young 
Minister on Preaching the Gospel; are 
in the press. 
Memoirs of the late Mrs. Catharine 
Cappe, written by Herself, will be pub- 
lished in a few days. 
Mr. I. Houmes, of Liverpool, an- 
nounces, for the 1st of January, his 
Impartial Account of the United 
States, drawn from actual observation 
during a residence there of four years, 
The third part of Green’s Universal 
Herbal, arranged on the Linnean Sys- 
tem, and adapted to scientific, as well 
as the most useful practical purposes, 
elucidated by numercus plates, accu- 
rately coloured after nature, will 
shortly be presented to the public. 
Dr. WHITAKER’s General History of 
the County of York, complete in two 
volumes, folio, is nearly ready, with 
plates engraved from beautiful draw- 
ings by J. M. W. Turner, esq. R.A- 
architectural subjects by Mr. Buckler, 
in 
